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- From: jshell@xmission.com (riverYard)
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- Subject: Re: C= Hacking #12 notes
- Date: 18 Mar 1996 19:29:56 GMT
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- Craig Bruce (csbruce@ccnga.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
- : I, of course, support the idea of other people building more applications
- : for the ACE environment. I also support the idea of using ACE applications
- : with other operating systems. ACE was built on the idea of providing a
- : well-defined Application-Program Interface (API), and any alternative OS
- : that can emulate the ACE interface (using a "middle-ware" layer of software)
- : can run all of the existing ACE applications. Thus, a new operating system
- : can have a base of (a few) high-quality programs available instantly
- : (high-enough quality that even _I_ use them). Admittedly, I have to update
- : the documentation on the ACE API, since it changed in Release #15, but the
- : basic functionality will always be the same.
- :
- : In addition, I also support the idea of other people using ACE code inside
- : of their own operating systems. Why re-invent the wheel? Especially useful
- : may be the dynamic-memory stuff and some device drivers. ACE is Public
- : Domain software, so you can do with it whatever you please.
-
- it's ideas like this that made UNIX strong, vs. the corporate ideas that
- made MS-DOS weak. i'm still working on getting the CX2 site
- 'interactive' for an open discussion on OS implementations, but i'm also
- toying with the idea of porting my object technology around to other OS's
- more than focusing on CX2 (well, i use CX2 for myself, so i do focus on
- it). specs and the like (mostly babbling to myself) can be found at:
- http://www.cynapses.com/ry/cx2/cx2home.html
-
- groovy pillow..
-
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